The Hour Has Come - Poem #6
Item Number: 00-VEI1105
Format: Choral Octavo
Voicing: SATB
By Srul Irving Glick
Srul Irving Glick (1934-2002) was a radio producer, conductor, teacher, and composer over the course of his life. In 1969 he became conductor of the choir at Beth Tikvah Synagogue, Toronto, and nine years later became the choir's composer-in-residence. The Hour Has Comeis part of a larger work titled The Hour Has Come: A Choral Symphony, a setting of six poems. The title poem was written by Carole Leckner and Glick's treatment of it brings the text to life with the heartbeat that pulses in the repeated text of “yearning,” and the gasping for air as the “soul breathes the spirit of her song.” Exploring a “sense of belonging,” the piece concludes seeking to connect with a sense of home that is both larger than the human experience and beyond what the human mind can ever truly comprehend.
